30% Reduced Glide Efficiency: How Turbine Wakes Negatively Affect Soaring Birds

Wind turbines may seem innocuous enough, but they have the potential to reshape the air birds fly through. In a recent ...
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Tips And Tricks To Keep Birds From Flying Into Your Windows

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Watching a bird fly across your yard, only to see it slam into one ...
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What’s the Biggest Flying Bird in the World? Its Size Will Leave You Speechless

Birds have fascinated humans for centuries, with their ability to take to the skies effortlessly. But when it comes to sheer size and wingspan, some birds dominate the skies in ways that seem almost ...
Forbes

Meet The ‘High-Flying’ Goose That Migrates Over The Himalayas. Hint: It’s Been Seen Flying Above The 5th Highest Mountain On Earth

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most birds fly at low altitudes, relatively speaking. But ...
Washingtonian

Millions of Birds Are Flying Over DC. Here’s How You Can Keep Them Safe.

It’s been a big week for birds. BirdCast—a migration forecasting tool operated by Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology—tracked a whopping 1.8 million birds passing over DC on ...
Hackaday

Conservationists Are Flying Microlites To Teach Birds How To Migrate

When it comes to what birds have and what humans don’t, your mind might first land on the ability to fly. However, birds are also pretty good at navigating from the air… assuming, that is, they know ...
OPB

It's like 'dead birds flying': How bird flu is spreading in the wild

Ralph Venstreets/University of California, Davis A little over a year ago, Marcela Uhart was walking on the beach in Punta Delgada, Argentina. It was peak breeding session on this peninsula known for ...